About the Authors

Yongli Zhang

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sdlevene@utdallas.edu

Affiliation Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Abbye E. McEwen

Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States of America

Donald M. Crothers

Affiliation Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Stephen D. Levene

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sdlevene@utdallas.edu

Affiliations Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States of America, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DC SL YZ. Performed the experiments: SL YZ AM. Analyzed the data: SL YZ AM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: YZ. Wrote the paper: SL YZ.